From: Daniel Hobe <daniel@...>
Date: 2004-03-23T15:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: SNMP module for Ruby

On Monday 22 March 2004 09:51 pm, Eric Hodel wrote:
> Daniel Hobe (daniel@nightrunner.com) wrote:
> > The one system administration-ish module that Ruby is missing is a good a
> > SNMP library.  Perl has a good wrapper around UCD/NET-snmp and is one of
> > the few reasons I could think of for still using Perl.  ruby-snmp is
> > based on an outdated version of the UCD-snmp library and doesn't seem to
> > have been updated since 2001.  The link to the simple_snmp homepage on
> > RAA is broken so I couldn't take a look at it.
>
> You could always try google:
>
> http://w3cic.riken.go.jp/~tsuruoka/

This is the one I had trouble with (for the s2nmp module):
http://members.tripod.co.jp/m6809/

Looking at the Google page for the module:
http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/m6809/index.html

It seems like this one also hasn't been updated since 2001 and I've yet to try 
it with Ruby 1.8.1.

>
> > It would be useful to have a good SNMP library available through Ruby,
> > and would make it easier to pitch Ruby to some of the networking folks I
> > know.
> >
> > Is this something any one else is working on?  I've never wrapped a C
> > library before so I'm a bit hesitant about starting with this one.
>
> Last time I compiled it, I think I had to fix the C source, because a
> member wasn't static (or was static, my C is rusty).

I was thinking more along the lines of porting it to version 5 of the NET-snmp 
libraries.

-- 
Daniel Hobe <daniel@nightrunner.com>
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